usenet client reader

[tango_ninja]

just installed kubuntu feisty fawn early this week.....did i miss something? where is the usenet reader?

does anyone know of a good usenet reader ? (i have just switched from windows and am unfamiliar with many good linux programs)

many thanks,

[linuxwizard]

Re: usenet client reader

Here's a list you can go through and see if you can find what you are looking for

http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html

[Snowhog]

Re: usenet client reader

Searching Adept Manager by description (un-check the Match: package name box) yields several usnet reader packages.

[tango_ninja]

Re: usenet client reader

thanks all, i was looking to see if anyone out there had any preferred readers and why so, but i've done some searching and it looks like klibido is pretty decent

[Teunis]

Re: usenet client reader

Personally I like Thunderbird for the text groups as I already use it for mail.
And the beta version of PAN is a damn good binaries reader, the so-called stable release is useless on very large groups.

[blobfish]

Re: usenet client reader

I have been using klibido for about 1.5 years and have had good success with it. I have even dipped my toe into kde/qt programming and wrote a feature to automatically update the subscribed groups. The only thing to watch out for is corrupting the database files with a forced termination of the app while downloading. The next release is supposed to have database transactions to cure this problem, but development has been idle for the last year.